I am getting feed titles such as "Ã¢ÂÂIÃ¢ÂÂm absolutely gobsmackedÃ¢ÂÂ: Former landmark ......." which clearly means the feed title is unreadable. Sometime back I recall updating a template to overcome this issue but now some feed titles have the issue re-appearing. Grateful if anyone could advise me how to correct this issue.

Still not worked, looking at the BBC weather feed I see it gives the encoding in the feed as UTF-8, does that mean you need no encoding statement in the template?
Secondly, although it has UTF-8 as the encoding, the letter "A" characters have the character ^ above it, otherwise they appear correct.

If you are using RSS2HTML to insert a feed into an existing webpage, then the encoding declared at the top of the HTML source for the whole webpage comes into play too, as it will be what the browser uses.

Since a webpage can only support one encoding you can run into situations where some text just can't be displayed correctly.

For example, if the encoding that your webpage needs is different than the encoding used in the RSS feed you are inserting. Or, if you are inserting multiple RSS feeds into a single webpage, and they each have different encodings.